Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-02-10
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Feb. q

Inc most careful revision, the accuracy of
which Is lndisputable, shows The following
estimate of the number of people on the
srt cked train aud how accounted for I'D TO
lO a. M, today. There were brought TO
Windsor on the Connecticut River road. 80 4;
brought TO White River Junction on the Bos
ton Lowell road, 81; taken out at White
RIVER junction, 6; train men, u; total num-
Der OF persons on the train, So. They are
accounted for as follows: Injured per sur.
geon's official list, SO; dead bodl-s recovered
10 Sunday, surgeons count. %; known to
nave gone north on trains, II; known to
nave returned home, Z; total, So These
n!ures may be changed by the probable
preser ce of chiide without tickets on the
Tram who have not been heard from.
ihis afternoon the commissioners decided
TO continue the investigation by going to the
rooms of some of the injured, their proceed
lngs being conducted openly as heretofore
Polly Arel of Chlcopee Fails, testified
was IN the second Passenger car, seventh
seat from the end, right side and was awake.
noticed The shake OF the car. 1t was tor
ward and back motion, not lateral at all.
Should think 1t was about one and halt
minutes until the crash came. Did not turn
over out went down straight aud struck rear
end hrst AT Bellows Falls, while waiting
another lady and my self discussed as to how
many thore were III the car, and we counted
them. | know there were lust ladies. .
small boys and Is men, making u IN all.
When the car struck ii laid still a little while
and could see the moon above me through
a window. l reached up and got my BODY
partly through, when man under me pulled
me back, saying he would GET out first an
then help me, but | did not see him again as
he lett me to get out alone.
Jas. klry of Burke, n. Y, was In the
first passenger car aud was awake. First
nUticed the car bob up and down. There
was an awful jar al first, kind OF a shock
1t alarmed me and | sprarg to my feet
The conductor reached for the rope and
missed 1t. l reached it and gave jerk. We
were going fast. l thought they were run
ming ON ties. l think the forward light in nv
car went out before the car went over the
side OF the bridge, but don't think the rest OF
them did or that any of the windows were
broken before we went over. | remember of
only one child in the car and that was Il lit
tie Doy who sat IN a seat ahead of me and
seemed TO be accompanied by man. Could
not tell If the car turned over as lost my
senses when we went over. When | came to
my senses some one told me it had been
over five minutes. l kicked my way out.
Fire had caught in my car from the lamp,
but cannot say in which end. had only
one boot on and no hat and did not know in
" hat direction to 60 all were crying out.
went back to the sleeper and heard a lady
CRYING for help. l picked up something,
smashed the window and took her out and
went away at once. My lett arm was brok-
en- and worked with my right.
Joseph +. jacques of Fitchburg, Mass.
fhn fret
the time of the accident and new the car was
Oft the track. He did not think the car
rolled over and over before it fell. Ii swung
around at one end but cannot say which end
| cannot say as to the speed, but noticed no
| slowing up for the bridge. When we first
went Oft saw no lights go out or windows
broken in our car. | think the conductor
was in our car. | saw some one with a uni
form on pull the cord twice but cannot say
whether it was the conductor or the brake
man,
This concluded all the testimony of the in
jured at the junction House and the com
mssioners went from there to the Paine
! house to see two or three more but their con.
dition was such that il was thought best 10
defer questioning them until tomorrow
| The hearing will be resumed tomorrow fore
noon. Prof. Fletcher's expert testimony
was given this afternoon.
| 1t cannot be doubted that the railroad com
missioners of this State are doing all that is
possible to get AT the facts in regard 10 the
! recent disaster, in order to locate the blame
therefor if any exists. But it is almost uni
versally conceded that the evidence thus tar
taken tends to show that the accident was
one " hich no amount of human owledgt
could have toreseen or prevented. Prot
! Robert Fletcher of Hanover has been quoted
as saying that the rails at the point of the ac
cidt mt were defective, this has been denied
| by the Professor and is cont-adlcted by hi,
testimony before the board this afternoon.
The previous computation of the tota
number of passengers on the wrecked trair
is tonight increased by six, making 81 knowr
to have been there. This is the result Of ths
evidence before the commissioner. showing
that there were SO persons on the Conneticu
river train who were delivered to the Centra
instead of 80, as at first stated by the conduc
tor. His present statement is verified by thu
ticket office reports This leaves six still
unaccounted for, which may be PARTIAL,
by the htxabiity of the surgeons estimate
of the charred bodies made Sunday. Tn
total number of tthe identified dead tonigh
numbers II, the list having been increase
one today by the addition of Harry Brook
of Boston, whose body was carried tonight t
Cornwall, Canada, by his uncle, Allen Cam
eron.
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